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dominate English

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What does dominate mean?
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dominate

If someone dominates something, they have sole, or nearly complete, control over it.

dominate

(= predominate, reign) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance Money reigns supreme here Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood be in control Her husband completely dominates her (= master) have dominance or the power to defeat over Her pain completely mastered her The methods can master the problems look down on The villa dominates the town (= overshadow) be greater in significance than the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness

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dominate · verb

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Simple sentences

Anorexia continued to dominate her life.
Don't let that man dominate you.

Movie subtitles

I want you to help me understand what made Western civilization dominate the world for the Iast 500 years.
Why did the West dominate the rest?
I have boiled it down to six things and I'm going to call them the six killer applications - the killer apps - that made the West dominate the rest.
Question - could something similar happen to Western civilization 2.0 - the version that, after a millennium of stagnation, rose to dominate the world?
He has one small scene, but I dominate that.
How many times have I told you? I can dominate any bull.
You either dominate the bull, or the bull dominates you.
I want to use them, enjoy them, and dominate them.
Though Dorian placed guards about the estate. the consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down. began to dominate him.
And I resolved that as Man had dominated the world of the sun. so I would dominate my world.
American women dominate men. French women don't yet.
Pass away. it's not love really, it's a sentimental complex, it's only a compulsion I want to dominate the girl, to possess her creatively!
The Russian aim is to dominate the world.
Yes, with such a weapon he could dominate the entire world.
We're dealing with religions fanatics! We have to dominate them, or they'll drive us out and the British will take our place.
We don't want to dominate you, but to bring you the benefits of civilization and progress.
Why should Christians dominate?
You want them to stay ignorant so you can dominate them.
Although we are ambitious as you are to dominate Europe. we are not so intense about it.
Her reaction was exceptional. - She probably wants to dominate it.
Oh, don't let him dominate you again!
The American woman dominates the man. The French doesn't dominate him yet.
Your desire to dominate him isn't strong enough.
Is that what you think I'm trying to do, dominate you?
See, he knows I dominate him.
So he wants to dominate the house and their company.
He needed these young girls he could dominate. A dirty old man.
The passion to dominate that made a shambles of the Earth.
Because I need your help to dominate this weak, beautiful planet.
The French doesn't dominate him yet.
This union will allow us to dominate this country against everything and everyone.
Not to dominate us as you have so quickly concluded.
Can we rule out the possibility that this is some war-mongering power trying to dominate us? I don' t believe that's the situation.
I will dominate this land.
It was not necessary for you to try to conquer and dominate.
But to govern a country, one must first learn how to dominate a white woman.
We women are conceited, we need to dominate.
Dominate air, fire.

News and current affairs

The simple fact is that Europe as a whole is too diverse to be captured by the economic and political interest groups that now dominate national states.
By contrast, rebelling against one's parents' generation and rediscovering traditional moral stances will save France - a message that is highly applicable to issues, such as education and immigration, that may dominate the electoral campaign.
Instead, foreign corporations, with their funds, controls, and experts--and, just as importantly, their beliefs--dominate larger enterprise.
There's only one problem: it wouldn't benefit those at the top, or the corporate and other special interests that have come to dominate America's policymaking.
The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates.
Humbled by military defeat, America can recover its regional relevance only by avoiding the sin of hubris, and learning to lead without attempting to dominate.
If civil society is too weak, parties will seek to dominate institutions that should remain independent.
Prompted by civic passivity, political parties not only came to dominate every aspect of Czech life but engaged in dubious practices that increased cynicism and public passivity.
A similar reluctance will dominate the rest of the immediate institutional agenda.
So the questions that dominate national campaigns have little impact on European elections.
With the Bank just two blocks away from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, it has been all too easy for the US to dominate the institution.
One often hears about rising healthcare costs in the context of future government budget projections, with old-age health costs expected to dominate growth in government expenditures in coming years.
The first pillar of this system is the public and private economic monopolies that dominate the country.
That transition will be a tricky one, because the governments that dominate the UN commission for human rights (CHR) are increasingly trying to protect themselves - and their allies - from any scrutiny or criticism.
While China is not about to dominate these institutions, in southern Africa it is regarded as a potential counterweight to the US and the EU.
But the very fact that there are questions about all three currencies means that none of them will obviously dominate.
The challenges of poverty, resource depletion, climate change, and human rights will dominate Ban's second term, and the work of those who will follow him as Secretary-General.
Before and after World War II, many skilled people came from Europe, Germany in particular; in recent decades, Asian immigrants dominate, with India, Pakistan, and the Philippines occupying the top ranks.
No single party can dominate Indian politics as the Congress Party has done since independence, implying a future of difficult and quarrelsome coalitions.
The US would, of course, need to respond to the conclusion of any trilateral Northeast Asian FTA in order to preserve its own role in global trade - and in the supply chains that dominate the Asian economies.
Why, then, are they maintaining policies that protect the special-interest groups that dominate the service sector?

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